Cao Jiaxuan
“This is not limited to Iran,” Zhang said, pointing to China’s responses to America’s military operation in Venezuela to abduct leader Nicolas Maduro and his wife to face narcoterrorism charges in the United States. “Beijing mainly condemns hegemonic behaviour verbally – actions that violate international law and infringe on other countries’ sovereignty – while also making it very clear that it believes solutions ultimately depend on cooperation between governments and their own people.”
That approach, analysts said, reflected China’s long-held principle of non-interference in internal affairs, a cornerstone of its diplomacy since the early years of the People’s Republic of China. According to Li Weijian, a researcher at the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies, China’s policy towards Iran “does not hinge on whether hardliners or reformists are in power because these are domestic matters”.
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